This is a 3 part program.

Pain Management

Whether you're 6 weeks, 6 months or 6 years postpartum, this course teaches you pain management techniques to implement in your day to day life to bring pain and sensitivity down.

Exercise

When people are in pain, particularly when they've been in pain for weeks or months, they tend to limit movement. This program uses movement to help bring your pain down. Our program focuses on strengthening your glutes, core and balance while improving flexibility in the front body to bring your pain down and your confidence in your body, up.

Scar Massage & Desensitization Techniques

Each week you'll learn scar massage and desensitization techniques that you or a partner can use to reduce muscle guarding, sensitivity in the tissue surrounding your scar while improving scar and fascial mobility.

This program is for anyone:

+ Experiencing c-section scar pain

+ Interested in optimizing c-section scar recovery

+ Not sure where to begin their c-section recovery

+Experiencing chronic c-section scar pain, defined as pain persisting past 3 months postpartum

+Who has developed an aversion to touching or looking at their scar

+Who has had a c-section and is looking for support

It is never too late to get started.

Curriculum

+ C-Section Recovery, Scars & Pain

This section helps you understand what a c-section really is and it's impact on your body, along with setting expectations for how long pain should last and why in some folks, pain becomes chronic. We'll then dive into how we address chronic pain, when we can start working on the scar and what we can do about c-section scar shelves.

+ 10 ways to manage pain & support healing in your early weeks

This section dives into pain management and recovery support for those in their early recovery weeks. This is for anyone taking this course within the first 6 weeks post operatively. This section will talk through red flags and warning signs, pain management tools and introduce gentle, foundational movement to help bring your pain down while giving you active options to support your body. Rest is important in the early weeks, but that doesn't mean there aren't steps we can take to support healing.

+ Prior to beginning

This section is where everyone will start, no matter how long it has been since your c-section. This section will teach you the foundational movements we'll be building on throughout the rest of the program, along with teaching you some simple postural changes and scar desensitization protocols to bring down your scar sensitivity and help your body start feeling better!

+ 6 week program

Our 6 week program provides you with weekly scar massage and exercise progressions to help decrease pain and sensitivity. We'll do this by guiding you through progressive movements to improve scar mobility, glute and abdominal strength, posture as well as hip and spine mobility. Our weekly program can be modified to take 10-30 minutes, 3-5 times a week.

Pricing Information

$150

Managing C-Section Scar Pain & Recovery

A c-section recovery program to help you manage pain, support your recovery and guide you back to feeling confident in and trusting your body.

This course is for anyone who had a c-section. It's both for those struggling with their recovery and experiencing discomfort regardless of how many weeks, months or years have passed since your c-section as well as for those looking for more comprehensive information and support around their postpartum recovery.

This course was created to:

give you the information you're not getting from your doctors about how to support your body as it heals through the early recovery weeks
help you manage c-section scar pain and sensitivity by improving flexibility, mobility and strength around your scar, no matter how long it has been since your c-section
guide you through an intentional, graded return to exercise and movement to help you move more confidently in your day to day life and workouts
help you back to feeling confident in and trusting your body, whether you plan on future pregnancies or not

We start by diving into what a c-section is, why some folks develop lasting pain and discomfort around their scar and pelvis for months or even years postpartum, and then take you through a weekly progression of movement and progressive scar massage techniques to reduce sensitivity, flexibility and strength around your scar.

Course testimonials:

"This is an excellent course and should be considered for anyone who has a c section. There is such little information provided to help with recovery and this really breaks it down in simple manageable ways to regain strength and function but really easy tips to reduce pain and incorporate throughout your day. It’s a very thorough course that takes you through day one to 12 weeks post op. I would recommend to anyone who has a cesarean!"

"The only care info I got from my dr post emergency c-section was “take it easy”. He didn’t tell me how to care for myself or even that I shouldn’t be driving yet. I was going up and down the stairs and pushing myself way too hard in the first few weeks until one of my friends that had a c-section told me what I was/wasn’t supposed to be doing. I’m sure that’s a contributing factor to why I have lasting aches and pains 8 months postpartum. This course would have changed so much for me if I had it early on. I felt like we were given the cliff notes version of c-sections during our online birth classes, like they just went over what it was not what happens after. I was hurting, especially with an emergency c-section after a day of back labor in one position because baby was on the cord any other way. I assumed all of my weird hip and back pain was just carrying the baby or aftermath of pregnancy with a big ass baby. I just thought this was how I would feel now. I'm grateful for more information and tools to feel better!!"

Other Classes

Birth Preparation & Postpartum Recovery Planning

All you need to know about training your body for birth and recovery.

Dr. Rebecca Maidansky, PT, DPT

$93.75

Postpartum Core Strengthening

Baby Steps Fitness is a 6 week postpartum exercise progression aimed to help you rebuild the foundations and reconnect with your core.